Thomas Rolandson was a sketch artist from the end of the 19th C. He utilizes the Danse Macabre again and, as have done all others, he adapts it to the morals and ethics of his days.

One thing I find significant, it`s the more pronounced focus on what appears to be an urban society with class distinctions, rituals, big bellied man told not to drink. Women can be just as merry-going, and most scenes depict what the results of a deprived life might be. Attacked are the ones that may have made it in life from a less nobler economic situation, not the eclisiastic hierarchy done over again.

Also, it seems to me one of the first time that I see Death accompagnied by someone else, a worker, depicted handling a scepter, the instrument of death, dissociated from death itself. Is it Azrael, the Angel of Death? The significant result is to conceptually separate death from the act of dying.